"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

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Source : Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

Henry David Thoreau

#Religious Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Law Quotes

“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”
“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”
“Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?”

Source : "The transformative power of classical music". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.”
“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”

Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)
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